sfḫḫ
Egyptian
Etymology
s- (causative prefix) + fḫḫ (“to loosen”), itself reduplicated from fḫ (“to loosen, to give up”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛfɛxɛx/
- Conventional anglicization: sefekhekh
Verb
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caus. 2ae gem.
- (transitive) to loosen
Inflection
Conjugation of sfḫḫ (causative second geminate / caus. 2ae gem. / caus. II. gem.) — base stem: sfḫ, geminated stem: sfḫḫ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
sfḫḫ | sfḫḫ | sfḫḫt | sfḫḫ | sfḫḫ |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
sfḫḫ | ḥr sfḫḫ | m sfḫḫ | r sfḫḫ |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | sfḫḫ.n | sfḫḫw, sfḫḫ | consecutive | sfḫḫ.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | sfḫḫt | ||||
perfective3 | sfḫḫ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative | sfḫḫ.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | sfḫḫ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | sfḫḫw, sfḫḫ, sfḫḫy | sfḫḫw, sfḫḫ, sfḫḫy | potentialis | sfḫḫ.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | sfḫḫ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | sfḫḫ.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | sfḫḫ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
imperfective | sfḫḫ, sfḫḫy, sfḫḫw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | sfḫḫ, sfḫḫj6, sfḫḫy6 | sfḫḫ, sfḫḫw5 |
prospective | sfḫḫ, sfḫḫtj7 | — | sfḫḫwtj1 4, sfḫḫtj4, sfḫḫt4 | |
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References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 162.